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Stephen Edward Carson
97 Walnut Avenue
Norwood, MA 02062
(781) 255-7373
Stephen_Carson@norwoodlight.com
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Summary	More than ten years' experience managing higher education programs, projects, and digital learning initiatives, including MIT's OpenCourseWare. Extensive background in evaluation and assessment, intellectual property rights management, and database implementation and management. Proven written and oral communication skills, including five years' work as a writing instructor, conference presentation experience, and publication history.

Professional Experience	External Relations Director, November 2006 - Present OpenCourseWare, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA • senior management team member; supervise two external relations staff; direct all external relations activities, including fundraising, OCW Consortium, and media relations; cultivate relationships with external strategic partners and advisors to extend the reach and impact of OCW; direct evaluation activities; maintain mission-critical database system Senior Strategist, January 2005 - November 2006 OpenCourseWare, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA • senior management team member; cultivated relationships with external strategic partners and advisors to extend the reach and impact of OCW; directed evaluation activities, including annual program and process evaluations, interim studies, and management reporting; maintained mission-critical database system Evaluation Specialist, October 2003 - January 2005 OpenCourseWare, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA • senior management team member; directed evaluation activities, including annual program and process evaluations, interim studies, and management reporting; maintained mission-critical database system Senior Faculty Liaison, Humanities/Department Liaison Program Coordinator January 2003 - October 2003 OpenCourseWare, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA • managed publication of all Humanities OpenCourseWare sites; implemented and oversaw 10-person department-based resource program; developed, implemented and maintained mission-critical database system Associate Director, February 2000 - January 2003 Interim Associate Director, September 1998 - February 2000 Division of Continuing Education, Emerson College, Boston, MA • oversaw of 300+ faculty and the Adult Degree Coordinator; developed and implemented academic programs; coordinated divisional advising services Coordinator, Adult Degree Program, September 1997 - September 1998 Division of Continuing Education, Emerson College, Boston, MA • oversaw nine degree programs in three disciplines; advised 280+ students; assisted with scheduling, faculty hiring and contracting

Board Service	Board of Directors (President) April 2008-Present OpenCourseWare Consortium, Cambridge, MA

Education	Global Social Benefit Incubator, August 2006 Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA Certificate in Web Production and Management, August 2000 Division of Continuing Education, Emerson College, Boston, MA MFA in Creative Writing, May 1997 Writing, Literature, and Publishing Division, Emerson College, Boston, MA BA in Liberal Arts, December 1990 Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

Teaching Experience	The OpenFiction Project, Norwood, MA • Independent opencourseware project making openly available the full materials from the distance learning course taught at Emerson College Division of Continuing Education (see below). Emerson College, Boston, MA • CE0260 Fictional Narrative Basics Workshop, March 4-29, 2002 • CS682 Database Management, January 2002 • CE0261 Publication in the Literary Arts Journal Market, Oct. 15th 2001, June 4th, 2002 • WP211 Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction, Distance Learning Course, Spring 2001, Summer 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Summer 2002 • WP217 Introduction to Creative Writing: Mixed Genre (Poetry/Fiction), Fall 2000 • WP121 Essay Writing: U.S. Multiculturalism, Spring 1998, Fall 1998, Spring 1999, Spring 2000

Professional Development	iLaw 2005, June 27-29, 2005 Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA Presenting Data and Information Seminar, March 4, 2004 Graphic Press, Boston, MA 4th Annual WebCT Users Conference, July 22-26, 2002 WebCT, Boston, MA Instructional Design Institute, July 23-24 & August 28, 2001 Emerson College, Boston, MA 7th annual General Education Symposium, April 6, 2001 Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA Chairing the Academic Department, February 23, 2001 Professional Arts Consortium/Colleges of the Fenway, Boston, MA Developing a Comprehensive Faculty Evaluation System, October 18-19, 1999 Assessing Student Learning Outcomes, October 20, 1999 Center for Educational Design and Assessment Conferences, San Diego, CA 28th Annual Conference, April 27-30, 1999 The New England Transfer Association, Portsmouth, NH Fast-Track Programs for Adult Students, October 26-27, 1999 The College Board Conference, Chicago, IL Alternative Delivery Options to Serve Adult Students, November 6-7, 1997 The College Board Conference, Boston, MA

Committee Service	Global Health Sciences Learning Center, Vancouver, BC • Advisory Committee Member, June 2006-Present Emerson College, Boston, MA • NEASC Reaccreditation Self-Study Committee, Programs & Instruction Subcommittee, March 2001-December 2002 • Strategic Planning Committee, New Markets Task Force, October 2000-December 2000 • Academic Planning Committee, Continuing Education Representative, April 2000-December 2002 • Outcomes Assessment Development Committee, December 1999-December 2002 • Outcomes Assessment Preliminary College-Wide Committee, October 1999

Presentations	MIT OCW: A Case Study Creating the Information Commons for e-Science: Toward Institutional Policies and Guidelines for Action, September 2, 2005 UNESCO/Committee on Data for Sciences and Technology, Paris, France MIT OpenCourseWare: A New Model for Open Sharing e-Learning 2005 Conference, April 5, 2005 Instructional Technology Council, Dallas, TX MIT OpenCourseWare: A New Model for Open Sharing 2004 MERLOT Internamtional Conference, August 2004 MERLOT, Costa Mesa, CA The OCW Open Sharing Model Web Portal Summit, January 2004 Emerson College, Boston, MA Planning for Online Instruction Academic Computing Center Speaker Series, November 2002 Emerson College, Boston, MA

Publications	Professional The OpenCourseWare Model: New England Roots, Global Impact, New England Journal of Higher Education, Summer 2008 (with Jeff Lazarus) The OpenCourseWare Model: High-Impact Open Educational Content, Educational Technology, Volume XLVII Number 6 MIT OpenCourseWare 2005 Program Evaluation Findings, available via MIT OpenCourseWare site, 2006 MIT OpenCourseWare 2004 Program Evaluation Findings, available via MIT OpenCourseWare site, 2005 MIT OpenCourseWare 2003 Program Evaluation Findings, available via MIT OpenCourseWare site, 2004 Fiction In This Late Hour, short story, Amherst Review, Volume XXIX, 2001 Monster Teeth, short story, Descant Magazine, Fall 1994 Nonfiction The Kind of Boy I Was, Dry Creek Review, Spring 2001 Poetry Today, The Cape Rock, Spring 2002 The Company of Trees, The Cumberland Poetry Review, Spring 2001 Chestnut Hill Reservoir, The Distillery, Volume VIII Number 2, July 2001 Father, Cutting Vegetables, Gulf Stream, No. 16, 2000 The Penalty Tent, Passages North, Summer 1998 Dinner, Hawai'i Review, Fall/Winter 1997 Grief, Beacon Street Review, Spring 1995 Ruthie and Belle's Farm, Irwin, OH, Calliope, Spring 1989

Scholarships	Merit Scholarship, Emerson College, 1996-97 WVU Visiting Writers Series Fiction Seminar with Sharon Sheehee Stark, November 1990 WVU Visiting Writers Series Poetry Seminar with Wayne Dodd, November 1988 WVU Visiting Writers Series Poetry Seminar with Maggie Anderson, November 1986 Merit Scholarship,West Virginia University, 1986-1990

Awards	Richard Duprey Creative Writing Contest, Second Place, Poetry Division, 1995 for Knowing You National Endowment for the Arts Grant, as a member of the writing group Fifth Business, 1990 West Virginia Writers', Inc. Creative Writing Contest, Honorable Mention, Fiction Division, 1990 for Hunting Waitman Barbe Creative Writing Contest, Second Place, Poetry Division, 1989 for Past Encounters Waitman Barbe Creative Writing Contest, Honorable Mention, Fiction Division, 1986 Waitman Barbe Creative Writing Contest, Second Place, Poetry Division, 1986 for Ruthie and Belle's Farm, Irwin, OH

Readings	Featured Thesis Reader, Graduate Student Reading Series, Emerson College, February 1997 Conference Final Reader, as a member of the writing group Fifth Business, GoldenRod Writer's Conference, October 1990

Works in Progress	Novel: River of the Crumbling Banks. An engineer must decide if a new dam will flood part of an Appalachian river town. Nonfiction Book: Bringing Down the House. An exploration of the history, architecture and current situation of the Opera House of Boston, 539 Washington Street, Boston, MA.